USA-MINNESOTA: MOSLEM GIRL SCOUTS

Being Muslim and a Girl Scout
Life in the Girl Scouts usually means cookie sales, camping and green sashes, but for Troop 1764, it means a hijab and a safe place to be a Muslim teenager.
Elizabeth Flores

Life in the Girl Scouts usually means cookie sales, camping and green sashes, but for Troop 1764, it means a hijab and a safe place to be a Muslim teenager.

The troop, created this year, is also known as Khadija Club, which derives its name from the first wife of the prophet Mohammed -- an independent, courageous woman who owned her own business.

The Girl Scout Council of Greater Minneapolis formed the troop, said Shelley Jacobson, the council's CEO, as an extension of initiatives it has made in other local communities such as the Hmong.

Girls in Muslim Troop 1764, mostly recent immigrants, shy from traditional scout activities but take an active role in educating the community about their religion and culture. A similar troop, No. 2119, is for younger Muslim girls, all of whom have been born in the United States. They engage in more typical scouting.

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Take a look at the picture that accompanies the story of the two hands holding one another, one is gloved in black and the other bare...Guess which one is the infidels hand and the other of the moslema?!? Wouldn't want to touch a najis infidel, now would the good little moslema?!? And the infidel is so ignorant that she doesn't even know that the gloved hand is gloved because she is considered UNCLEAN (najis)...Ohhh of course the explanation for the glove will be "it's part of the religious dress, part of the 'head to toe bag' outfit, etc."...

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